The Monthly Voyage of Narnia Enthusiasts

There’s fandom, and then there is fandom. And for those folks comprising the New York C. S. Lewis Society, who meet on the second Friday of every month in the parish hall of the Church of the Ascension at 12 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, the latter category is definitely more applicable, as Lily Koppel finds out for the New York Times. The society’s secretary, Clara Sarrocco, 60, traces her obsession to when she was 16, attending a Catholic high school in Queens, where she lives. “One of my teachers came in and mentioned a book written from one demon to another demon,” she said of Lewis’s SCREWTAPE LETTERS. “Real diabolicaL-sounding.”

When she was in her 20s, Sarrocco clipped an advertisement for the society from a magazine. “I stuck it in my mirror,” she said. “Every time I looked in the mirror, I kept on saying, ‘I have to go there.’ I was a little intimidated.” But her curiosity won out. Since the early 1970s, Sarrocco has been part of the society, which has about 500 subscribers to its twice-a-month bulletin from across the country and abroad, including Japan, Germany, Russia and England. There’s something about Narnia, indeed….

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